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A lady buys some black garters to cheer up her sick husband. Wood engraving, c. 1900.

A physician giving a medicine to a sick man in bed, and a surgeon, supervised by a physician, amputating the leg of seated patient, representing pharmacy and surgery respectively. Engraving, 1646.

Florence Nightingale. Coloured mezzotint by C.A.Tomkins, 1855, after J. Butterworth.

Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala, Siena: the care and management of the sick. Photographs by Fotografia Lombardi Siena, 18--, of fresco by Domenico di Bartolo, 1441-1442.

Crimean War: Florence Nightingale with her lamp at a patient's bedside. Colour lithograph, 1891, after H. Rae.

A surgeon about to bleed a male patient's leg, he is observed by an older physician and aided by an assistant. Engraving, 1586.

A family threatened by influenza is prepared for a large scale bloodletting. Coloured etching, 18--.

A surgeon performing a paracentesis on an obese man, whose swollen abdomen has a cannula inserted into it, and is subsequently releasing fluid into a basin. Pen drawing by Z.S. after an engraving, 1672.

A surgeon about to bleed a man's arm, he is aided by an older surgeon and an assistant, a woman (the patient's wife ?) is present. Engraving, 1586.

An innkeeper's wife and daughter taking care of Don Quixote's wounds and injuries after being beaten. Engraving after W. Hogarth after M. de Cervantes Saavedra.

<p>Presumably an episode in the Napoleonic Wars, of which Lecomte made many depictions. In the background is a large city</p>

Wounded foreigners outside the city walls being picked up by French soldiers and taken to a guarded fortress. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann after H. Lecomte, 1820.

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Die Krankenpflege im Hause und im Hospitale : ein Handbuch für Familien und Krankenpflegerinnen zum besten des Rudolphiner-Vereines zur Erbauung und Erhaltung eines Pavillon-krankenhauses behufs heranbildung von Plegerinnen für Kranke und Verwundete in Wien / herausgegeben von Th. Billroth.

Schleswig-Holstein War: an ambulance arriving at a battlefield in Düppel 18 April 1864. Lithograph by W. Funke, 1864.

<p>The poem Die Johanniter by Friedrich Schiller compares the military successes of the Knights of Malta in Syria and the Holy Land with their achievements as hospitallers, and regards the latter as more important. Schiller also wrote a foreword to a history of the Order </p>

1 print : line engraving ; image 10.1 x 7.4 cm

The interior of a hospital of the Order of St. John. Line engraving by Rasmäsler, 1828, after J.H. Ramberg.

560, 84, 27 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

A text-book of practical therapeutics with especial reference to the application of remedial measures to disease and their employment upon a rational basis / by Hobart Amory Hare.

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Wounded foreigners outside the city walls being picked up by French soldiers and taken to a guarded fortress. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann after H. Lecomte, 1820.

Die Krankenpflege im Hause und im Hospitale : ein Handbuch für Familien und Krankenpflegerinnen zum besten des Rudolphiner-Vereines zur Erbauung und Erhaltung eines Pavillon-krankenhauses behufs heranbildung von Plegerinnen für Kranke und Verwundete in Wien / herausgegeben von Th. Billroth.

Schleswig-Holstein War: an ambulance arriving at a battlefield in Düppel 18 April 1864. Lithograph by W. Funke, 1864.

The interior of a hospital of the Order of St. John. Line engraving by Rasmäsler, 1828, after J.H. Ramberg.

A text-book of practical therapeutics with especial reference to the application of remedial measures to disease and their employment upon a rational basis / by Hobart Amory Hare.

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Care of the sick

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Wounded foreigners outside the city walls being picked up by French soldiers and taken to a guarded fortress. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann after H. Lecomte, 1820.

Die Krankenpflege im Hause und im Hospitale : ein Handbuch für Familien und Krankenpflegerinnen zum besten des Rudolphiner-Vereines zur Erbauung und Erhaltung eines Pavillon-krankenhauses behufs heranbildung von Plegerinnen für Kranke und Verwundete in Wien / herausgegeben von Th. Billroth.

Schleswig-Holstein War: an ambulance arriving at a battlefield in Düppel 18 April 1864. Lithograph by W. Funke, 1864.

The interior of a hospital of the Order of St. John. Line engraving by Rasmäsler, 1828, after J.H. Ramberg.

A text-book of practical therapeutics with especial reference to the application of remedial measures to disease and their employment upon a rational basis / by Hobart Amory Hare.

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